New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-05
THE PROGRESS or TIE C0LoRED RACE

VIEWS or A coIoRED iEROYMAS-BELIEF THAT
THE SOUTH CAROLINA "sCARE" Is POLITICAL.
wAsnINoToS, July 'Spceidb.-Ths Rev. Alexander
Crummell d. d. rector OF ~ Luk1s Episcopal Church Ia
Washington. 10 one Of the best informed and most
thoughtful colored men In tho country. In letter on
the mora aud social condition OF the coored people Of
Washington, Dr. Crnmm-n makes some observations
witch direct application to the relations OF the
white and parts OF South Carolina which
have been made the subject OF recent sensational ds
patches from that stata In part he writes;
deep r.srs, nat .a'r. = section Q, the rae:
Inn. s,os.rou: erims. Sss 70 state here however
sasS .sts else where. that since emancipation fully
Of ,s blssS ha. supsrority which runs
,s -h s I.v. Of rh,s :ocis,y u Msrs
the color-d people not no, g. .,ea r
claim that fully third alo. have '"n not indeed
,Sr Ell ,apport and TO domestic progress which place.
ne@ macy esrse, .Soyo both tae msea' .ns pSy. 80
Sc proofs Of sat.asnt Ia thousands OF the lAboias
Without doSSi IN many respects degraded po..O
than n. ,s Sas. no %'a a.
hbua INTO vice p,easAey md crime hST are we mo 20
white Of this county !. largely re. poo.ios
s. reed sops 81 the sosb ar. assnT ass
from the rur. districts ssa as oC ~ t s arg.
ibt.rnal citis' and inland torns VIA ma ~, 90 ,.mi
.srfao% Into Witch the black hrmn. popuati held aud
which has taken the place Of The Old ~ aa o. .sys ~, re
large propoon wiz not w9r. !a,r as@ nor S. viii hsu .s
/"
tenant system OF the most grinding ana deuustW- ohsr
sss t s. ap al, upon
rise utter despair shake the dnsl or
nooi to IN. large cities It's owing th. state
black pcpuaon poor INDECENT debased anu violent
DR. Crummsl writes OF what ne knows and the truth
Of his satemsnts will not DO denisd by any farainded
and Intelligent man who knows tue iaets. inere are IN
too that tho sensational stories which have
begun to appear only tho hrs teps In Den"erhuo
conspiracy hold tho sontn solid line until aer tae
Presidential election the large aceesslons OF white
voters the Republican ranks In NORTH CToina anu
Virginia and the waverins In the Democratic ines IN
tude amouz the Democratic leadera Already the word
has gone from Washington through virginia ana
North Carolina that those states must ne carried AZ all
hazards" In Virginia Malone he defeated at what
over cost" There heavy colored kepnbcAu vote IN
Virginia and South Carolina II ths race can 90 maas
means the coorsd vote can no suppressed IN virginia
and North Carolina IS 1t has been In south oarohha
ABATEMENT OF Mr. CLEvELANDs SUBSTITUTE.
WASHINGTON, July tSpeeiai -Rsferring to Chicago
di,patoh published in THE TRIBUNE OF yesterday, which
includes statement purportng to come from the suos-
tute furnished by Mr. Cleveland during the war 70 the
effect that Mr. Cleveland has refused Ia render h any
aasstance correspo dent OF The TRIBUNE enabed 10
say tsst as made BY said sub
sttnto under OATH which the man says nat hs being
"a Groy.r Cisvslanfs substitute that he consented to
do 90 that MT Cleveland agreed pay him $3.50 when
be had been accepted aud mustered Into the services that
% p: W.. thai %a''' Mr. cPovoi.nd PROMISED him
win an hoporshs discharge he Mr.. Cleveland. would
see that he wanted for anything; hat s0mo Two
years aro no became incapasted Tor S StS. ON
the military service aud taken TO the county poor
house Eric County thntPresidsrt ~ msds
with condition but neglected 10 DO any.
thing for him that he applied for pension which had
been granted al the time he made he anu
eoIdisrs Hctps Bath. OF which he wac An Inmate 81
the time the statement va made.